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I have a wonderful library, accumulated over the course of decades. Many books I’ve read; many I’ve not.
This blog series takes a look inside my library…
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Fist Up to Books! We Will Shoot Back
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, by Akinyele Umoja (2013). Brother Akinyele Umoja, like myself,...
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Fist Up to Books! We Were Eight Years in Power
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). This is Ta-Nehisi’s treasury of riveting articles...
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Fist Up to Books! The War Before
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming A Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison and Fighting for Those Left Behind, by...
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Fist Up to Books! Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman, Jr. (2017). The war on crime that began in the 1970s was...
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Fist Up to Books! The Osiris Papers
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, edited by Raymond Winbush and Denise Wright (2020)....
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Fist Up to Books! Acts of Faith
Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color, 25th Anniversary Edition, by Iyanla Vanzant (2018, 1st edition 1993). I remember...
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Fist Up to Books! Are We Better Off...?
I have a wonderful library, accumulated over the course of decades. Many books I’ve read; many I’ve not. This blog series takes a look...
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Fist Up to Books! Chocolate City
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove (2018). This...
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Fist Up to Books! Ready for Revolution
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), by Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell...
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Fist Up to Books! Still on this Journey
What I’m reading now… Still on this Journey: The Vision and Mission of Dr. Ron Daniels (2019). I am so thrilled that Dr. Daniels’...
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Fist Up to Books! Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination, by Herb Boyd (2017) Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the...
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Fist Up to Books! The African American Entrepreneur, Then and Now
The African American Entrepreneur, Then and Now, by W. Sherman Rogers (2010). In this gem of a book Howard Law Professor Rogers explores...
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Fist Up to Books! An Unlikely Warrior:
An Unlikely Warrior: Evolution of a Black Nationalist Revolutionary, Herman Ferguson by Iyaluua Ferguson with Herman Ferguson (2011)....
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